Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Personalised medicine: a critique on the future of health care
Published 2013-01-01In recent years we have seen the emergence of “personalised medicine.” This development can be seen as the logical product of reductionism in medical science in which disease is increasingly understood in molecular terms. ...Open AccessArticle -
Reconceptualizing involuntary outpatient psychiatric treatment: From "Capacity" to "Capability"
Published 2016-01-01Justifying involuntary psychiatric treatment on the basis of a judgment that a person lacks capacity is controversial because there are questions about the meaning and utility of the concept in this context. There are ...Open AccessArticle -
A Test Unlike Any Other
Published 2015-01-01My story of direct-to-consumer personal genome testing (DTCPGT) differs from many of those published online because it was inspired not so much by a desire to understand my background or my future but by a research interest ...Open AccessArticle -
Epidemiology, quality control and consumer access in the medical marketplace: the changing landscape of human genetic technology regulation in Australia
Published 2013-01-01Advances in genetics, genetic therapeutics and the application of genetic technologies to many aspects of human life have challenged the capacity of regulatory authorities and legislative processes the world over. In ...Open AccessArticle -
Why information and choice won't solve all of NIPT's ethical problems
Published 2016-08-30Jane Fisher and Lyn Chitty highlight in BioNews 864 that it's been almost nine months since the UK National Screening Committee (NSC) recommended an 'evaluative implementation of NIPT into the NHS's antenatal screening ...Open AccessArticle, Letter